2023 Mercedes is “hardest” car to get right in F1 career

The seven-time world champion ended up 0.501s down on polesitter Carlos Sainz at the Marina Bay track, while team-mate George Russell split the Ferraris to qualify on the front row.

The qualifying battle between the Mercedes drivers has been closely fought in 2023, with Russell inching ahead 8-7 in Singapore.

Hamilton scored the team’s only pole position of the year in Hungary, his first since 2021, but it remains his only front-row start of the…